Monthly Archive for July, 2006

: July, 2006

I’m heading out to the day of fun that is Van’s Warped Tour tomorrow. I love Warped. It’s an all day extravaganza of pure rock music. Sure it’s extremely commercial and corporatized, which is totally anti-punk, but it’s a damn good time. …

The Who announced its much talked about U.S. tour today. According to MTVNews.com(Yes, that is where I get some of my music news. I know, it’s kinda sad, ain’t it?) the tour includes a stop at KeyArena on Oct. 11. No word on when tickets go on sale for what is sure to be an amazing show at the Key. …

It’s no secret that I am a Radiohead fan. Actually, I love them to death. However, while I do own about 15 or 20 import Radiohead singles, I am not one of those obsessive fanboy freaks who know every detail about every song and analyze every word that comes out of Thom Yorke’s mouth. …

I am not a big fan of Top 10 lists, especially when it comes to music. I do enjoy “best of” lists but ranking records, songs or artists just seems wrong to me. Sometimes I just think the Top 10 lists are ways for out of touch rock critics to regain some cred by name-dropping Sufjan Stevens or some other hip indie band that mainstream radio and MTV don’t play. Other times I think they are ways for pretentious critics (ahem, Pitchfork) to make people feel stupid because they don’t know about a certain band that the critic thinks is the best thing to happen to music since Syd Barret. …

In case you haven’t heard, Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett died July 7. I’m not a big Floyd fan and really the band did it’s most commercially successful work after he left the band, but all day today I couldn’t help thinking “man, Syd Barrett is dead”. …

The rock gods have smiled upon me once again as two of my favorite groups of indie noisemakers, … And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead and Seattle’s very own Blood Brothers, are set to tour together. Okay, so both the Blood Bros and Trail of Dead are on major labels, but forget that small detail. I consider them to be indie. …

Okay, I think I am the one music critic in America who doesn’t like Sufjan Stevens all that much. I can understand why people like him and I think he has a good gimmick going with his one CD for every state thing (I can’t wait until he does such exotic locales as North Dakota or Delaware), but I am not too impressed. …

One Reel, the company that puts on Bumbershoot, finally announced the complete lineup and schedule for Bumbershoot. Why they did so on a Sunday beats me. Anyway, the lineup looks pretty great for the three-day event and I already like this year’s set of performers better than what was put together last year. Some of the performers of note that were added include Steve Miller, Blondie, Spoon, New Pornographers (here’s to hoping it doesn’t hail on Neko Case) and tons of local talent inlcuding The Lonely H, Mon Frere, The Briefs, Saturday Knights, Kane Hodder, Cancer Rising and others. Take that Capital Hill Bolck Party! …

A few weeks ago I was introduced to something called a mog and I am not quite sure what I think about it. It was described to me as MySpace for music nerds, so right then I knew I had to try it. However, I am an infrequent MySpacer so I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into. …

According to this Web site, Ashlee Simpson is going to be the face of a new line of Victoria’s Secret products. Apparently, she turned down Playboy and she beat out Kelly Clarkson for the Victoria’s Secret job. …

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